Today, there is widespread appreciation of the essential importance of protecting and preserving the rule of law state; of ...

Attacks against the human rights of LGBTI people are assaults on the rule of law. It is time to push back. The Commissioner ...

On 19 May 2025 the first Steering Committee meeting of the Council of Europe project “Youth for Democracy in Ukraine: Phase ...

Elsewhere on day three, speakers from Ukraine, Latvia, and Taiwan examined information-psychological operations, including ...

A special consultative session with media editors from Bosnia and Herzegovina took place in Sarajevo, focusing on the ...

Our project, in collaboration with the Justice Academy, successfully facilitated the workshop on “Use of and Reference to the ...

Special Envoy of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe on the situation of children of Ukraine, Thórdís Kolbrún ...

May 2025, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on Intercultural Inclusion (ADI‑INT) met in Strasbourg and advanced in ...

As many of you know, our Directorate was established in January 2024, following the Fourth Summit of the Council of Europe Heads of State and Government. Its creation was a direct response to the ...

Good Governance – the responsible conduct of public affairs and management of public resources – is encapsulated in the Council of Europe 12 Principles of Good Governance. Adopted in 2008 as part of ...

It helps me guide my efforts in my role as Special Envoy on the Situation of the Children of Ukraine for the Council of Europe. And as we all have an ambition in our own roles to make it count - I ...

Physical violence includes beating, burning, kicking, punching, biting, maiming or killing, or the use of objects or weapons. Some classifications also include human trafficking and slavery in the ...